20 giu 2010
03:33 | Postado por
Marcos Giongo
A joint venture involving a Wellington company in China aims to process pine timber from New Zealand for sale in the European building industry to replace tropical African hardwoods.
The joint-venture factory has a target of processing 50,000 cubic metres a year from about 100,000cum of pruned logs, the equivalent of a decent size timber mill in New Zealand, an industry source said.
Wellington-based forest industry company Forme Consulting Group announced a joint venture with a Chinese manufacturer, Tianjin Sunwin Group, with processing at a factory planned to be built near the port of Tianjin, near Beijing.
The planned startup date for the joint venture is late 2010, according to a statement by Wellington City Council.
The companies plan to use a new environmentally safe wood modification process to modify the softwood, radiata pine, from New Zealand plantations into products suitable for substitution of threatened species.
Several European countries are restricting their use of tropical hardwoods to help prevent deforestation of the world's rainforests. Pine is seen as much easier to process and faster to treat than other species.
The Chinese building industry is also seen as a market for the modified timber products.
New Zealand already exports some remanufactured timber products such as doors and window frames, but mainly to the United States market, as well as some to Spain.
Negotiations on the joint venture with Sunwin were brokered by Jon Dey of Forme Consulting, based in the Wellington suburb of Tawa. Forme is an independent forestry consulting company, which audits and reviews forest company processes to lift productivity.
A memorandum of understanding for the joint venture was signed in Tianjin as part of the the visit of Wellington's mayoral delegation to China. Mayor Kerry Prendergast and other delegates attended the signing ceremony.
An application will be made in Tianjin to build the factory on about 80 hectares of land, which is part of the 30-square-kilometre Dongjiang Tianjin port area. The factory would be the centrepoint of a wood-processing cluster village where locals would be employed to make the treated wood into components for the European building industry market.
The processing will be done at a factory that the companies plan to build near the giant and rapidly developing port of Tianjin, near Beijing.
Source: Stuff
The joint-venture factory has a target of processing 50,000 cubic metres a year from about 100,000cum of pruned logs, the equivalent of a decent size timber mill in New Zealand, an industry source said.
Wellington-based forest industry company Forme Consulting Group announced a joint venture with a Chinese manufacturer, Tianjin Sunwin Group, with processing at a factory planned to be built near the port of Tianjin, near Beijing.
The planned startup date for the joint venture is late 2010, according to a statement by Wellington City Council.
The companies plan to use a new environmentally safe wood modification process to modify the softwood, radiata pine, from New Zealand plantations into products suitable for substitution of threatened species.
Several European countries are restricting their use of tropical hardwoods to help prevent deforestation of the world's rainforests. Pine is seen as much easier to process and faster to treat than other species.
The Chinese building industry is also seen as a market for the modified timber products.
Negotiations on the joint venture with Sunwin were brokered by Jon Dey of Forme Consulting, based in the Wellington suburb of Tawa. Forme is an independent forestry consulting company, which audits and reviews forest company processes to lift productivity.
A memorandum of understanding for the joint venture was signed in Tianjin as part of the the visit of Wellington's mayoral delegation to China. Mayor Kerry Prendergast and other delegates attended the signing ceremony.
An application will be made in Tianjin to build the factory on about 80 hectares of land, which is part of the 30-square-kilometre Dongjiang Tianjin port area. The factory would be the centrepoint of a wood-processing cluster village where locals would be employed to make the treated wood into components for the European building industry market.
The processing will be done at a factory that the companies plan to build near the giant and rapidly developing port of Tianjin, near Beijing.
Source: Stuff
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